[Bug 1589580] Re: Text files cannot be converted to pdf

[dsitze]

See http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=29754

Initial symptom is consistent w/ policy change. Comment out the line for
text coder in /etc/ImageMagic-6.

The command now requires (per security update) text to be explicit:

convert text:test.txt test.pdf

However, now you'll get:
convert: ../../coders/txt.c:197: ReadTEXTImage: Assertion `exception != (ExceptionInfo *) NULL' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

As indicated in the linked discussion, this has been fixed in later
versions.

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Title:
  Text files cannot be converted to pdf

Status in imagemagick package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In ubuntu 16.04 (xenial):

  $ convert test.txt test.pdf
  convert: improper image header `test.txt' @ error/txt.c/ReadTXTImage/433.
  convert: no images defined `test.pdf' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3210.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  $ apt-cache policy imagemagick
  imagemagick:
    Installed: 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
    Candidate: 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
    Version table:
   *** 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

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